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Unofficial Parts Path
Unofficial parts should not mixed with official part. Therefore the a quasi
standard has been established as follow:
Unofficial files should be stored in a directory structure like follows:
<LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/P
<LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/P/48
<LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/PARTS
<LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/PARTS/S
To use also this in MLCad you have to add that in MLCad.ini
[SCAN_ORDER]
1 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Parts
2 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Parts\s
3 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P
4 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P\48
5 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts
6 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts\s
7 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\P
8 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\P\48
This is not an official document!
As today the file header of an official part has a flag that indicates that this
file is official I think this is a good solution.
I wrote this to have a documentation summary what has been discussed in many
articles that are not easy to find.
cu
mikeheide
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> Unofficial Parts Path
>
> Unofficial parts should not mixed with official part. Therefore the a quasi
> standard has been established as follow:
>
> Unofficial files should be stored in a directory structure like follows:
> <LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/P
> <LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/P/48
> <LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/PARTS
> <LDRAWDIR>/Unofficial/PARTS/S
Ten letters folder name... may it always remain a quasi standard!
/Tore
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[SCAN_ORDER]
1 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Parts
2 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Parts\s
3 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P
4 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P\48
5 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts
6 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts\s
7 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\P
8 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\P\48
The entries I bolded above are wrong/unnecessary. The HIDE will prevent them
from showing up in the parts list, but they’ll still be found when used properly
inside other files, since the 48/ or s/ is included in the referring part, and
you don’t want them to be found incorrectly if the part is broken.
--Travis
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On 10/25/2009 7:39 AM, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> Unofficial Parts Path
>
> Unofficial parts should not mixed with official part. Therefore the a quasi
> standard has been established as follow:
This is a nice tip, thank you. Yes, I agree that it would be nice to be
able to arbitrarily enable/disable/set/configure the paths LDraw (ok,
maybe not ldraw.exe and ledit.exe per se) uses to search for parts.
Mike
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